Re: Odd behavior with temp usage logging

From: Craig Ringer <craig(at)postnewspapers(dot)com(dot)au>
To: Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Odd behavior with temp usage logging
Date: 2009-01-27 08:14:06
Message-ID: 497EC24E.5040805@postnewspapers.com.au
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Josh Berkus wrote:
> Folks,
>
> I turned on temp file logging for PostgreSQL to see if I needed to
> adjust work_mem. Oddly, it's logging file usage up to 33 times per
> executed query (and no, the query isn't large enough to need 33 separate
> sorts).

Are you sure there's not a sort happening inside a loop? It might help
if you posted the actual log messages along with the output of `EXPLAIN
ANALYZE' on your query.

--
Craig Ringer

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